Re: FW: [dnsproc-en] DNS Lotto: You Gotta Be In It To Win It

[jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Michael and all,

  Well it is not the first time this suggestion has been made.  I and others
made
this very same suggestion over two years ago to Jon Postel.  It of course
fell on deaf ears.  I suspect it will this time as well.

Michael Sondow wrote:

> This is the first reasonable suggestion made on this issue, IMHO. Why not
> follow it? (Answer: If we start doing reasonable things, who knows where it
> might lead?)
>
> Dr Eberhard W Lisse a écrit:
> >
> > Esther,
> >
> > why not tender this out?
> >
> > Form a tender committee with experts beyond reproach (I mean people
> > like Paul Vixie, Alan Barret, John Quarterman, Robert ELz, Randy Bush,
> > Stefano Trumpy) a laywer (someone like Tamar Frankel?) and a Prof from
> > a Business school.
> >
> > Publish a tender specification.
> >
> > Accept sealed bids on a deadline.  To avoid nuisance bids, ask for a
> > substantial non refundable fee up front. That will pay for the travel
> > of the experts.
> >
> > Then have each expert evaluate each tender by way of allocating points
> > from a finite number of points for each application (in general, or
> > for each "part" of the tender). Publish the  guidelines.
> >
> > The applications with the most points win.
> >
> > Publish the points table (not necessarily by name, though I prefer
> > that, but then the experts will have to be protected against law
> > suits.)
> >
> > el

Regards,

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